I've always wondered if there isn't a way to restore the ability to do an upgrade after doing BFU. I don't know all the issues, does anybody know why you can no longer do an upgrade?
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Jonathan Groll wrote: >> Being relatively new to opensolaris, I downloaded and installed b65 of >> opensolaris and have subsequently successfully updated the core system >> to higher build levels (currently on build 68). >> >> I've also seen that there are JDS consolidations that can be applied >> which I will do in due course. >> >> What does concern me though, is what are you meant to do to keep these >> sort of packages up to date: >> system SUNWrpm Utilities for processing >> RPM archives >> system SUNWsfwdemo Open Source demo programs >> system SUNWsprot Solaris Bundled tools > > For the majority of the OS (ON is only about 20% of Solaris), you need > to download the new ISO's and do an OS upgrade to them - unfortunately, > if you've used BFU, it breaks your ability to do upgrades. > -- blu The #1 red flag for privacy advocates is when a law enforcement official says "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
